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Perhaps because it runs one of the most security-hardened OSes available.
by Sephr 9y ago
Perhaps because it runs one of the most security-hardened OSes available.
- mtgx 9y agoAnd all of that security goes out of the window when Google stores all of your data on their servers, and it gets hacked. From what I've noticed hackers increasingly prefer going after major companies to steal user data now, because it's much easier to get millions of accounts in one go this way. Google may not be Equifax, but the more data it stores on us, the more juicier of a target it becomes, especially for nation states. Local national governments will also keep changing their laws to allow themselves to get more data from Google, too.
- Sephr 9y agoYou can encrypt your profile sync data with a password different from your Google password, so that Google cannot read the data.
- mstibbard 9y agoHow do you do this? I really need to step up my security game. As an aside - are you encrypting all your cloud storage data, and if so, what tool are you using?
- priccis 9y ago[rclone](http://rclone.org/crypt/ http://rclone.org/crypt/)
- mstibbard 9y agoIs there a decent way to access rclone-crypt encrypted files from an Android or iOS device?
- priccis 9y agoTry rclone on Termux (https://termux.com/ https://termux.com/). See: https://github.com/ncw/rclone/wiki/rclone-on-Android-with-Termux https://github.com/ncw/rclone/wiki/rclone-on-Android-with-Te... The thing is that you can't mount on Android since the lack of fuse on Termux.
- kps 9y ago> How do you do this? Settings → Sync
- jacksmith21006 9y agoData is going to be much more secure on Google servers than anywhere else, imo.